emerge complains about world file not meshing

hampton275 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 104

# emerge -p world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies
*** Package in world file is not installed: kde-base/kde ...done!

I unmerged and emerged this package about a week ago. I have done a rsync, emerge world and emerge clean. And still same thing.
Any ideas?

Thanks, Ken

Jimbow · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:24 pm Post subject:

It looks like emerge is telling you that kde is in your world file but is not installed on your system. If this is the case then you can either emerge kde or edit /var/cache/edb/world and remove the kde entry.
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hampton275 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 104

If I remove it from the world file will I cause propblems for portage in the future?

Jimbow · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 2:44 am Post subject:

No future problems. The world file is to let you design your own custom system. It keeps track of all the packages you explicitly emerged. It is designed for you to edit it.

If you want to have kde part of your system again, just emerge it, the kde line will get put back in your world file and emerge will know to update it when you run an "emerge -u world" after a newer version of kde comes out.
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